Drivers loaded and running but receiving NO_DRIVER error

[bwhelan]

Hi,

I have the Peak drivers for my PCAN-PCI/104-Express FD board loaded onto the CPU of my PC/104 stack. I can confirm these drivers are running with devcon.exe status.

However, when I set up a test program to try using the PCANBasic library to initialize my PCAN board, It returns a NO_DRIVER error (seen below)
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Is there a step I have missed in enabling the driver? It says it is running and I have restarted the system to be sure.

Thanks for your help.

[K.Wagner]

Hello,

are you trying to create a universal app? Please note that our drivers are "Desktop drivers" and are not compatible with the universal platform. You will always get the error NO_DRIVER when doing so.

[bwhelan]

Yes I am using a UWP app. So even though they say they are running on the system they won't work with UWP when I have the PCANBasic.cs API in it as well?

What is the reason for this incompatibility? is it .NET Core or a .NET Framework incompatibility? What would the best solution to not stray too far from my current implementation goals?

I am not sure what you mean by Desktop drivers specifically. In what configuration would I be able to use these drivers? Since the PCI/104 board that I am using them on is not a desktop, what OS or software platform could I use them on?

Thanks!

[K.Wagner]

Hello,

Yes I am using a UWP app. So even though they say they are running on the system they won't work with UWP when I have the PCANBasic.cs API in it as well?

Correct. They are installed and available for the desktop platform, not for UWP.

What is the reason for this incompatibility? is it .NET Core or a .NET Framework incompatibility?

Windows desktop applications and UWP applications work different, i.e. they target different "frameworks". UWP works in a kind of sandbox, with less resources and more restrictions than normal desktop applications. For this reason each platform needs some special treatment. For a device this means having a driver for each, windows desktop platform and/or universal Windows platform.

What would the best solution to not stray too far from my current implementation goals?

I don't know your goals, but if you want to use C# for programming and XAML for design, then the best you can use is Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

I am not sure what you mean by Desktop drivers specifically. In what configuration would I be able to use these drivers? Since the PCI/104 board that I am using them on is not a desktop, what OS or software platform could I use them on?

You can use these drivers in following operating system: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 Windows 10, and Windows IoT Enterprise.
You cannot use these drivers on: Windows IoT

You can use following Technologies for accessing the device drivers: Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Win32.
You cannot use following .NET technologies for accessing the device drivers: Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

[bwhelan]

Thank you for the very detailed response. I know I had a lot of questions. I very much appreciate your time.

Just to confirm then, if I were to use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, the drivers would work. Just not with UWP? I would have to select another platform?

[K.Wagner]

Hello,

Thank you for the very detailed response.

you're welcome.

Just to confirm then, if I were to use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, the drivers would work. Just not with UWP? I would have to select another platform?

Yes